The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It's ugly!" Sylvia, who had completely controlled the power of the out-of-control blood in her body, the first thing she did after waking up was to ask Leo to bring her a big mirror. Even though he was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help muttering.

"No, very beautiful!" Leo smiled and said, "At least in the eyes of the abyss dragon, she should be regarded as a peerless beauty."

Hearing Leo's response, Sylvia was not angry, but looked at Leo full of doubts, and said with a smile, "You know how to joke? Have I been asleep for hundreds of years?"

After getting along for such a long time, Sylvia has never seen Leo tell a joke. In her impression, Leo is a serious person, but now Leo suddenly said such a surprising sentence. It made Sylvia feel that Leo was a little different, but she didn't quite know what the difference was. In short, it became a little different from before.

Leo explained: "You didn't sleep for hundreds of years, I just found some things."

"Your real memory?" Sylvia immediately understood what Leo was talking about.

Leo nodded, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to tell Sylvia what he had gained from sorting out the memory fragments in the past few days.

In the past few days of taking care of Sylvia, he has not been idle. Whenever he has free time, he looks for memory fragments related to his real memory in the memory bank he abandoned, because with Li Hongmei, Chang'an Starfield and the old earth With clues such as the Eastern Kingdom of the Times as the core of the search, he was able to find the memory fragments that were most likely to be real memories more quickly and accurately, and he did not encounter any difficulties in reorganizing these memory fragments. Four relatively complete memory fragments were integrated in it.

The reason why these four memory fragments are relatively complete is because these four memory fragments all have a complete narrative, and there are characters who can cause him emotional fluctuations. The conversations of those people in the memory fragments also involve some of the earth that he knows. Federal History.

However, he hesitated before speaking, not knowing where to start. Even these relatively complete memories are still fragmented memories without beginning and end. Even if the fragments are sorted out, he is still not very clear He knew exactly what he had experienced in the past, but one thing he was sure of was that his memory of becoming a cyborg warrior was not completely a false memory, and he was a completely normal human being at first, not an artificial object.

First of all, the longest memory is also the earliest memory in time. There is a clear time in this memory fragment on June 11, 2177 AD in the Old Earth Era, because the first clear time in the memory fragment The picture shows him shaving in front of a mirror, and the mirror shows the time, in addition to the time, there are also information such as the name of the place and the weather, and his location at that time was a place called Chenzhou.

After a brief grooming, Leo saw him in the memory fragments come to the bedroom of the house, kissed an oriental woman who hadn't woken up on the bed, and looked at the one in the cradle next to him who was only a few months old baby.

When he saw this part of memory, whether it was towards the oriental woman or the baby who was a few months old, he felt a strong emotion that he had never had before, and the intensity of this emotion was not weaker than His emotions for Sylvia are even stronger now, so strong that tears flow out of his eyes inexplicably. At this moment, he feels that there are some normal human emotions in his heart.

After that, in his memory, he did not wake up the woman and baby who were still sleeping, but walked lightly to another room, changed into the military uniform of the Eastern countries in the old earth era, and took out the An extremely old-looking storage device was placed on the table and quietly left the apartment.

And the last picture is when he walked out of the apartment in his memory and looked up at the sky, and some ring-shaped objects appeared in the sky, criss-crossing and wrapping the earth.

It is not difficult for Leo to find out the information of this ring-shaped object from his own database. This object is called the Wade Ring. It was invented by a scientist named Wade. It was originally built as a unit model of the space elevator project. However, after Wade's improvement, it became the core module of the earth's defense system, mainly to defend the earth from threats from outer space.

The threat mentioned here is not alien civilization. In fact, when the Wade ring was built, the joint organization of the earth at that time had not had any in-depth contact with alien civilization. Only some spaceships of alien civilization accidentally contacted humans on earth and The government agency had brief contact with it, and the real danger that Wade's ring resisted was actually a meteorite from space.

Mars in the old Earth era once encountered a very strong meteorite impact in 2131 AD. This time the meteorite impact not only caused serious damage to Mars, but also caused changes in the magnetic field of the galaxy, so that the distance between Mars and Jupiter The asteroid belt began to deviate from its original orbit under the action of the magnetic field, and some of these off-orbit asteroids were blocked by Mars, and some of them passed the earth, but there were still a lot of asteroids that rushed directly to the earth .

That is to say, under such circumstances, the Wade ring has changed from an auxiliary module of the space elevator project to a core defense system for the earth to defend against the impact of outer space, and it has blocked countless threats from outer space for the earth in the following decades, Until November 11, 2177 AD, during an asteroid interception failure, the fragments of the asteroid that were not completely crushed directly hit a defect that no one expected, causing the entire Wade ring to It all disintegrated in an instant, and finally smashed into the earth together with the asteroid fragments that could not be intercepted.

It is because of this accident that the countries in the old earth era suffered unprecedented losses, and finally triggered the Doomsday War. The original Earth Federation was established after the Doomsday War. It can be said that this accident is the origin of the Earth Federation.

What's interesting is that through the last picture of this memory fragment and some related memories generated along with the picture, Leo confirmed that he in his memory should be one of the officers sent by the eastern country to station at Wade Ring, and the station was b7n878 Area, this area can be said to be the Wade ring module area recorded in history, because this area is the weakest defect point of the entire Wade ring. It was here that the asteroid fragments hit, which caused the Wade ring to disintegrate.

The sorted out memory fragments gave Leo the most complicated feelings. First of all, he felt very kind and natural when he saw the oriental soldier in the mirror, just like he himself looked in the mirror. In addition, he could see the officer’s wife and children Strong emotions, just like seeing his own wife and children, even surpassing his current wife and children, and finally saw the Wade Ring and related mission memories. If there is no accident, the memory fragments in the accident happened He should be stationed in that area.

Although it was only a small piece of daily memory, Leo had already gained a lot from this memory, and he was basically sure that the Eastern officer in his memory should be him in the past.

In addition to this particularly important memory fragment, there are also two memory fragments that are also very important. These two memory fragments are made up of more than thirty memory fragments. The content is not complete and there are some faults, but it should be It can be seen that it is a memory from the same experience, and the duration of these two memory fragments is also very long, each of which is more than 30 minutes long.

These two memories are all related to the battle. Although they did not directly provide important clues about the location and time like the first memory, but from the names of the orders given by the comrades next to him during the battle, and the unique "May in the sky" Leo can basically infer that these two pieces of memory fragments related to the battle are in the Baize galaxy in the Chang'an star field. , and the battle in these two memories of him is very likely to be the very famous Bai Ze rebellion in the history of the Earth Federation, and he happened to join the rebel army in his memory.

What was the reason for the outbreak of the Baize Rebellion? Until the period of time remembered by the biochemical warrior Leo, that is, a hundred years later, it was still not fully declassified by the Earth Federation Government. The galaxy imposes a mining tax.

In the Earth Federation's list of suitability for planetary colonization and development, the suitability of the seven planets in the Baize galaxy is G-level, which is the lowest level. They are the most unsuitable planets for human habitation and development, so in many For a long time, the development rate of the Bai Ze galaxy was zero.

It wasn't until the Earth Federation scanned the Bai Ze galaxy with a mineral detector newly introduced by a medium-sized alien civilization that it was discovered that every planet in the Bai Ze galaxy contained a very special smelting additive ore. This additive ore mainly It is added when smelting some special metals to increase the hardness and toughness of the metal. Its value is not particularly high, but it requires a large amount. If it is mined in large quantities, it can still create considerable wealth.

In order to attract mining groups and miners to mine in this harsh illusion, the Earth Federation Government has offered a series of favorable conditions, the biggest of which is tax relief for a hundred years, which includes not only mining transactions. The tax also includes the mining tax of the mining itself, which undoubtedly attracted many mining groups to enter the Bai Ze galaxy for development.

In addition, in order to attract miners and other service personnel, the Earth Federation government also agreed to reduce the income tax and other various taxes for all immigrants who came here to work for a hundred years, and also agreed to reduce the various debts these people had borne in the past, so a large number People from different planets joined the army of immigrating to the Bai Ze galaxy, and transformed the seven planets in the Bai Ze galaxy into planets that can be used for human immigration in a short period of time.

I just don’t know why the Earth Federation suddenly broke the contract after implementing the tax reduction and exemption policy for more than 40 years, and wanted to collect mining taxes from all mining groups in the Baize Galaxy, which caused quite a shock in all circles of the Earth Federation. This led to the later Baize Rebellion, which is the cause of the Baize Rebellion recorded in official documents.

At first glance, such a cause is very reasonable and there is no problem, but if you think about it carefully, you can find that there are a lot of unreasonable loopholes in it.

First of all, the document of the Earth Federation announcing the collection of mining tax shows that it is only a trial collection, not a formal collection. That is to say, there are still discussions on related matters with the mining group that was mining in the Baize galaxy at that time, and the matter is far from urgent. The point where a rebellion is needed.

Secondly, if the Baize rebellion was caused by the collection of mining taxes in violation of the contract as recorded, then the major mining groups must be leading the rebellion. The industry is nothing to these groups, and if it is lost, it will be lost, but if it is a rebellion caused by them, then these groups will definitely encounter a strong blow from the Earth Federation Government afterwards, and even directly arrest the group directors and confiscate them. Group assets, after all, this has not happened before in the history of the Earth Federation, but the real situation is that these mining groups have not been hit, and after the rebellion subsided, the mineral deposits of the Bai Ze Galaxy are still being developed by them, which is obviously illogical .

The last point is that the Earth Federation only announced the collection of mining taxes, and did not levy any taxes on ordinary people. The impact on the immigration of the Bai Ze Galaxy is infinitely close to zero. These ordinary immigrants do not need to participate in the rebellion at all.

However, according to records, nearly 100% of the Bai Ze galaxy immigrants joined the rebel army during the seventeen-year Bai Ze rebellion, and none of the rebel troops surrendered, but chose to resist to the death, as if all of them and the earth The federation has an irresolvable blood feud. In the end, all 600 million immigrants in the entire Bai Ze galaxy were killed in battle, and the Bai Ze rebellion was completely quelled.

Although the Baize Rebellion was not the largest of the various wars of the Earth Federation in terms of the scale of the war, not even the top ten, but its final casualties were the most among all wars. The 600 million Baize Rebel Army The entire army was wiped out, and the Earth Federation's anti-rebel forces suffered as many as 300 million casualties. The surface of the seven planets in the Baize galaxy sank an average of 11.45 meters during the war, and the flying dust did not completely settle until twenty years later.

Such a tragic result naturally caused the entire Earth Federation civil and official shocks, and all forces were holding the high-level officials of the Earth Federation government and military accountable at the time. The real reason for this rebellion has never been announced, and all relevant files have been classified as top secret, and a public investigation report that was falsely known to everyone was only given in the third year after the rebellion subsided.

And this Bai Ze rebellion is also related to Li Hongmei, because it was this Bai Ze rebellion that led to the dismissal of the military commander-in-chief of Chang'an Star Field at that time, and this was why Li Hongmei was transferred.